Weylin Wedding Guide (2027): Cost, Capacity & Everything Else

Weylin is the old Williamsburgh Savings Bank at 175 Broadway, just south of the Williamsburg Bridge and across the street from Peter Luger. George B. Post, who later designed the New York Stock Exchange, built it between 1870 and 1875 as a bank for working people. Peter B. Wight painted the inside of its 110-foot cast-iron dome, and it is the only mural of his that survives. The bank ended its working life as an HSBC branch, was sold in 2010 and reopened in 2014 after a three-year restoration that put back the mosaics, the carved wood and the wallpaper, room by room.

That is what you are renting: the whole building, for one night, with nobody else’s event in it. The day runs from a ceremony under the pale Oculus Dome to cocktails downstairs in the 1875 Bar and Gallery, then back up for dinner and dancing under the painted one.

For 2027, the Signature package is $385 a guest for food, open bar and staff, with a 120-guest minimum, plus $10,000 for the building on a Saturday or $5,000 on a Friday. With the administrative fee and sales tax, a 120-guest Saturday comes to about $73,000 before tables and chairs. The tradeoff is easy to state. Nobody sleeps here, the furniture is a separate order, and lighting and sound come from the house supplier.

• Location: 175 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
• Venue type: Restored 1875 bank with two connected domed halls, a bar, a gallery and private rooms. Exclusive use
• 2027 pricing: $385 a guest for food, open bar and service, 120-guest minimum. Building rental $10,000 Saturday, $5,000 Friday. 23% administrative fee and 8.875% sales tax on top
• 120 guests, all in: about $73,000 on a Saturday, about $67,000 on a Friday, before furniture
• Tables, chairs, linens and tableware: separate order with Party Rental Ltd., from $95 to $105 a guest
• Dinner with dancing: 200 in the Main Rotunda, 350 across both domes
• Sweet spot: 120 to 200 guests
• Rain plan: None needed. The whole wedding is indoors
• The night: Six hours. One for the ceremony, one for cocktails, four for dinner and dancing, with the 1875 Bar for the after-party. Start time and music cutoff are agreed with the venue
• Catering and vendors: Pinch Food Design in the kitchen, Brooktech for lighting and sound, Party Rental Ltd. for furniture. Florist, band, photographer and planner are your choice
• House rules: A planner or day-of coordinator is required. Vendors load in from 8 a.m.
• Overnight rooms: None. Guests stay in Williamsburg hotels, the closest a five-minute walk away
• Typical total budget: $135,000 to $200,000 for 120 guests on a Saturday*
• Getting there: Marcy Avenue subway (J, M, Z), 5 to 10 minutes on foot. LaGuardia, 25 to 50 minutes by car
• Best for: Couples who want a landmark room, a wedding that ignores the forecast and a guest list that likes Brooklyn
• Main consideration: The $10,000 rental is the smallest line on the bill. Budget from the per-guest price up

*RoamRecs planning estimate. Budgets, walking times and drive times throughout this guide are ours.

Weylin is for couples who want the room to do the decorating, and it is one of the few in New York that can. Most Brooklyn venues are lofts and warehouses that you dress. This one is a banking hall with a painted dome 110 feet overhead, mosaic floors and a different period wallpaper in every side room. You walk in from Broadway and the scale does the work a designer would otherwise have to.

What makes it a good wedding venue, and not only a good photograph, is the sequence. The Oculus Dome is pale and coffered, which suits a ceremony. The 1875 Bar and Gallery downstairs are lower, closer and more intimate, so cocktail hour feels like a different address. Then guests come back up to the Main Rotunda, reset and lit for dinner, and get the reveal a second time. Three moods, one building, no coats.

The sweet spot is 120 to 200 guests. Up to 200, dinner and dancing both fit in the Main Rotunda and the whole party stays under the painted dome. Past that, dinner spreads across the two halls, which meet through an archway. It works, and Weylin hosts weddings of 350, but someone is always seated in the other room for the speeches. If you are at 220, it is worth the awkward conversations to get to 200.

Spend on light and sound before flowers. The architecture forgives a simple table and punishes bad lighting: a dome that disappears into the dark at 9 p.m. is a waste of the rental. Warm uplighting on the arches, pin spots on the tables and a properly tuned sound system matter more here than a floral installation competing with the ceiling.

Two things come with the territory. First, the price is a stack. The package, the fee, the tax, the furniture and the lighting each arrive separately, and the building rental that catches your eye on the price sheet is the least of them. Second, this is a venue for a night, not a weekend. You have the building from 8 a.m. to load-out, and then everyone goes home to a hotel. The welcome drinks and the brunch happen elsewhere in Williamsburg, which is no hardship.

Best for: an indoor wedding with real architectural drama, 120 to 200 guests, and a couple happy to let the building set the tone.

Think twice if: you want guests sleeping where they celebrate, an outdoor ceremony, or a free hand to bring your own lighting and rental companies.

Weylin prices a wedding in three parts: the building, the per-guest package and the furniture. For a Friday or Saturday in 2027:

• Building rental: $10,000 Saturday, $5,000 Friday
• Signature package: $385 a guest, with a 120-guest minimum
• Administrative fee: 23% of the package
• Sales tax: 8.875% on all of it
• Furniture and tableware: $95 to $105 a guest, ordered separately

Put together for 120 guests, that is about $73,000 on a Saturday and $67,000 on a Friday. Add the furniture order and a Saturday lands at roughly $85,000 to $87,000 before lighting, flowers, music and a planner.

The quick way to think about it: the fee and tax add about a third to the $385, so each guest costs around $515 at the table and about $625 once they have a chair, a plate and a glass. Use that number when you are deciding whether the guest list is 140 or 170.

What the package includes

• Exclusive use of the building for six hours: ceremony, cocktails, dinner and dancing
• Eight passed hors d’oeuvres and three roving pop-ups at cocktail hour
• A three-course dinner with a choice of entrée and passed desserts
• An open bar with spirits, wine, sparkling wine and beer
• The President’s Room as a private suite for the couple
• The full floor team: event manager, venue coordinator, captains, chefs, a bartender per 50 guests and a waiter per table of ten
• Coat check, restroom attendants, a doorman and security

Pinch Food Design does the cooking, and it is a real reason to book. Pinch is known for presentation, and the roving pop-ups are the part guests talk about afterwards. Lean into it at cocktail hour and keep the dinner menu simple.

The 23% is an administrative fee and goes to the house. If you want to tip the floor team, plan that separately. And you are welcome to bring your own wedding cake.

Friday is the best deal on the price sheet

The menu, the bar, the staff and the building are identical on a Friday. The rental is half, which saves about $5,400 after tax. For a guest list that is mostly local, or one flying in for a long weekend anyway, it is free money. Put it towards the lighting.

The furniture order

Tables, chairs, linens, china, glassware and flatware come from Party Rental Ltd., Weylin’s exclusive rental company, on its own invoice. The $95 to $105 a guest covers a good standard setup. Tax, delivery and a breakage allowance bring a 120-guest order to about $14,000 to $17,000.

Choose everything in one sitting with your planner, working from the floor plan. The chair is the decision that shows most in photographs. Upgraded linens and specialty glassware are where the order quietly grows.

The 120-guest minimum

The package bills for 120 whether or not 120 come. If your list is nearer 80, ask about the Intimate Weddings format, which is built around the 1875 Bar and priced on its own terms.

A well-produced Saturday wedding at Weylin in 2027 lands in these ranges. They are RoamRecs planning estimates for the wedding day itself: ceremony, cocktails, dinner, dancing and the team around it.

• 120 guests: $135,000 to $200,000
• 200 guests: $195,000 to $270,000
• 250 guests: $235,000 to $325,000

Here is where the money goes at 120 guests:

• Building, catering, bar, fee and tax: $73,000
• Furniture and tableware, delivered: $14,000 to $17,000
• Planner or coordinator: $8,000 to $16,000
• Flowers and design: $10,000 to $24,000
• Lighting and sound: $7,000 to $16,000
• Photography and video: $9,000 to $16,000
• Band or DJ: $4,000 to $12,000
• Guest transport, officiant, stationery, insurance and tips: $5,500 to $13,000

Add a 10% cushion on everything below the first line and you arrive at the range above.

Three things move the total. Guest count: each extra guest is about $625 before you add a centerpiece. The band: a ten-piece band needs a stage, more sound and more of the room, and the lighting and sound quote grows with it. Ambition: these figures buy a handsome, properly lit wedding that lets the building lead. A floral ceiling treatment or a custom dance floor will take you past them.

The ranges leave out hotel rooms, a welcome party, a brunch and an after-party.

Weylin seats 200 for dinner with dancing in the Main Rotunda and 350 across both domes. It is at its best with 120 to 200.

• Main Rotunda: Dinner and dancing. The painted dome, 110 feet up. 200 seated with a dance floor, 300 for dinner alone.
• Oculus Dome: Ceremony. Paler, coffered and calmer. 240 seated in rows.
• The Domes, combined: Larger receptions. The two halls joined through an archway. 350 seated with a dance floor.
• The Gallery: Cocktails. On the lower floor, opening onto the bar. 275 standing.
• 1875 Bar: Cocktails and the after-party. 175 standing.
• President’s Room: The couple’s suite. Wood-paneled and private, a room for 15.
• The Vault and the Persian Room: Photo booth and portraits. Small side rooms with the best wallpaper in the building.

How we would use the building

Ceremony in the Oculus Dome, cocktails downstairs in the Bar and Gallery, dinner and dancing in the Main Rotunda. That order saves the big room for last and gives the team an hour to dress it while guests are a floor away with a drink.

For dinner, we like long tables running out from the center of the Rotunda with the dance floor directly under the dome. Rounds work too, and fit more people. Either way, keep the center open. The best moment of the night is the first dance with the whole room looking up.

Put the band or DJ where both halls can see them if you are using the full Domes, and give the speeches from the archway. It is the spot where guests in both halls can see the same face.

The side rooms are worth using. The Vault and the Persian Room make better photo-booth backdrops than anything you could build, and the bank’s old offices give the photographer ten minutes of portraits without leaving the building.

The numbers that change the plan

• Up to 200: Everything above works as described.
• 201 to 240: The ceremony still fits the Oculus Dome. Dinner moves to the combined Domes.
• 241 to 350: The ceremony moves to the Main Rotunda as well, and the rooms are reset during cocktails. Ask to see this drawn at your guest count before you sign.

You do not need one. The ceremony, cocktails, dinner and dancing are indoors by design, so the wedding you plan is the wedding you get. In a city where a rooftop ceremony means watching the forecast for ten days, that is worth real money.

What rain does change is the edges of the day. Have umbrellas at the door, tell car services to pull up on Broadway, and move any street portraits inside to the Rotunda before guests arrive. The front courtyard is the smoking area in any weather, and drinks stay inside.

Walk the guest route on your site visit. The cocktail rooms are a floor below the domes, with elevators as well as stairs, and the building is fully accessible. Have your coordinator station someone at the elevator when 150 people move at once, and seat older relatives where they have the shortest trip.

Nobody stays at Weylin, so Williamsburg is your hotel. That is good news for guests: the neighborhood has several of the best hotels in Brooklyn within a mile and a half of the door.

The President’s Room is yours for the day, and it is a handsome place to sign the license, have a drink together after the ceremony or change shoes. It holds about 15 people standing. Do hair and makeup at your hotel and arrive dressed.

Where should wedding guests stay?

Keep the group in one or two hotels. It makes the welcome drinks easy, and a single pickup point is all the transport plan you need.

Moxy Brooklyn Williamsburg, 353 Bedford Avenue. Our first choice for the main block. It is five to eight minutes from Weylin on foot, which means guests can walk home.

Wythe Hotel, 80 Wythe Avenue. The one for the couple and immediate family. A converted factory on the north side with lofts big enough to get ready in and rooms with some character. Ten to 20 minutes by car.

The Hoxton, Williamsburg, 97 Wythe Avenue. A sociable lobby, good restaurants and a younger crowd, a block from the Wythe. Ten to 20 minutes by car, or 20 to 25 on foot for guests in flat shoes.

For 120 guests from out of town, start with about 60 rooms and adjust once the replies come in. Book the couple’s room for the night before as well as the wedding night, so the morning is not spent waiting for check-in.

Steer guests away from Manhattan hotels. The bridge is right there, and it is also the reason a two-mile trip can take 40 minutes on a Saturday evening.

Three names come with the building

Pinch Food Design cooks and runs the bar under the Signature package. Brooktech supplies all lighting and sound. Party Rental Ltd. supplies the furniture and tableware. Everything else is yours to choose: the florist, the band, the photographer, the planner.

The house suppliers are an advantage more often than a limit. Brooktech works in these rooms all year and knows where the power is, what the room does to a bass line and how long a changeover takes. Send them your band’s technical rider before you sign the band. A cheaper act that needs twice the equipment is not cheaper.

If you have your heart set on another caterer, or need a kosher kitchen, Weylin has a separate venue-rental format that allows an approved outside caterer, with the bar staying in house. It is priced differently from everything in this guide.

Hire the planner first

Weylin requires a planner or day-of coordinator, and you would want one anyway. The venue’s own coordinator looks after the building. Your planner owns the timeline, the room flips, the rental order and the fourteen vendors arriving at a single door on Broadway from 8 a.m. Pick someone who has worked here before and they will already know the elevator, the load-in and the Brooktech team.

Six hours, then the 1875 Bar

The package gives you six hours: one for the ceremony, one for cocktails and four for dinner and dancing. For a 5:30 p.m. ceremony that is an 11:30 p.m. finish upstairs. The start time and the music cutoff are agreed with Weylin when you book, so settle both before the invitations go out.

Then go downstairs. The 1875 Bar takes after-parties, and it is the right room for one: smaller, closer and already a bar. It suits the 80 or so guests who are still going at midnight far better than trying to keep 200 on a half-empty dance floor under the dome. Price it when you book the wedding, so it is in the contract and on the invitation.

House rules worth knowing

• Vendors load in from 8 a.m. and have four hours after the wedding to load out
• Candles are welcome, with the number and placement agreed in advance
• Event insurance is required, and Weylin supplies a template certificate
• Assume nothing hangs from the dome and plan freestanding installations
• Valet parking is available through Advanced Parking Concepts

Most couples marry in the Oculus Dome. It seats 240 in rows, the light is soft, and the coffered ceiling frames a chuppah or an arch without competing with it. Keep the aisle long and the flowers low and let the room do the rest.

Above 240 guests the ceremony moves to the Main Rotunda, which is the grander room and seats 400 in rows. The trade is that guests see the dinner room early, so plan a strong change of lighting between the two.

The package allows an hour. A 25-minute ceremony leaves time for guests to arrive, settle and drift downstairs without being hurried.

For the paperwork: a New York City marriage license costs $35 from the City Clerk, takes effect after 24 hours and is good for 60 days. Any officiant registered with the city can sign it, and a friend can officiate with a one-day license from the Clerk’s office. Sort it in the week before and bring it with you.

The address to give everyone is 175 Broadway, Brooklyn. Put the borough on the invitation and in every car booking. There is a 175 Broadway in Manhattan too, and it is not where you are getting married.

• Marcy Avenue subway (J, M, Z): 5 to 10 minutes on foot
• Bedford Avenue subway (L): 18 to 25 minutes on foot
• LaGuardia Airport: 25 to 50 minutes by car
• JFK Airport: 40 to 80 minutes by car
• Penn Station: 30 to 60 minutes by car
• Newark Airport: 50 to 100 minutes by car

LaGuardia is the easy one. From JFK, the insider route is the AirTrain to Jamaica and the J train straight to Marcy Avenue, which often beats a car at rush hour. Guests arriving by train at Penn Station should take a taxi over the Williamsburg Bridge.

Do wedding guests need a car?

No, and they should not rent one. Parking in Williamsburg is scarce and nobody wants to drive home from an open bar.

Guests at the Moxy can walk. For hotels on the north side, book a shuttle or a few sprinter vans to loop between the hotel and Weylin, with one run before the ceremony and two at the end of the night: one at the last dance and one after the after-party. Have the transport company agree the drop-off spot with the venue. Broadway is busy, so do not count on a coach waiting at the curb.

Offer valet for the handful of local guests who will drive regardless.

Any month works here, which is the point. Our pick is May, then October.

• April: average high 62°F, low 46°F, 4.1 inches of rain
• May: average high 71°F, low 55°F, 4.0 inches of rain
• June: average high 80°F, low 64°F, 4.5 inches of rain
• September: average high 76°F, low 62°F, 4.3 inches of rain
• October: average high 65°F, low 51°F, 4.4 inches of rain

Central Park averages, 1991 to 2020.

Because the wedding is indoors, choose the date for your guests and not for the weather. That frees you to pick the weekend when flights and hotel rooms are kindest.

May is the sweet spot. It is warm enough for portraits on the bridge and a walk back to the hotel.

June is warmer, with long evenings that suit a 6 p.m. ceremony and photographs outside afterwards. It is also the busiest month for Saturdays, so this is where the Friday rate earns its keep.

October suits the building. The light goes early, the domes glow by cocktail hour and guests are glad to be inside.

December to February is when Weylin makes the most sense of all. A candlelit banking hall on a cold night is hard to beat, and nobody misses a garden. Build in a day’s margin for flights.

Weylin gives you one night. The neighborhood supplies the rest of the weekend, and it is one of the best in the city to hand to out-of-town guests.

Friday. Welcome drinks at the hotel where most guests are staying, kept loose: a bar tab, a couple of hours, home by ten. If you want a seated rehearsal dinner, Weylin hosts them in the 1875 Bar and Gallery, which gives the family a preview of the building. Or walk the wedding party across the street to Peter Luger, the steakhouse that has been on this corner of Broadway since 1887. Book it months ahead.

Saturday. A slow morning. Send guests to the waterfront and keep the wedding party at the hotel. Ceremony at 5:30, cocktails downstairs at 6:30, dinner under the dome at 7:30, the 1875 Bar from 11:30.

Sunday. A late, informal brunch near the hotels, with no seating plan and no speeches. People drift in, compare photographs and leave for the airport.

For guests with a free day

Put these on the wedding website:

• Walk the Williamsburg Bridge. The pedestrian path starts two blocks from Weylin and lands on the Lower East Side in about 25 minutes, with the best view of the bank’s dome on the way.
• Domino Park. The riverfront park on the old Domino Sugar refinery site, ten minutes’ walk away, with the Manhattan skyline across the water. The place for a coffee the morning after.
• Smorgasburg. The open-air food market sets up on the Williamsburg waterfront on Saturdays from spring to autumn. A good lunch for guests on the wedding day itself.
• Diner. A 1920s dining car at 85 Broadway, a few blocks west of Weylin, and a Williamsburg institution. Right for a late breakfast or a small family lunch.
• Maison Premiere. Oysters and absinthe on Bedford Avenue, and the bar to send anyone who asks where to have one proper drink.
• Bedford Avenue and the north side. Shops, record stores, bakeries and the hotel rooftops, all within a walk of the Wythe and the Hoxton.

Best for

• Weddings of 120 to 200 guests
• Couples who want landmark architecture and a light hand with décor
• Any season, including winter
• Ceremony and reception under one roof with no weather plan
• Guests who will enjoy a weekend in Brooklyn
• Couples who care about the food at cocktail hour

Things to consider

• No overnight rooms. Everyone stays in hotels
• The price arrives in layers: package, fee, tax, furniture, lighting
• Lighting, sound and rentals come from the house suppliers
• A 120-guest minimum on the Signature package
• Above 200 guests, dinner is split across two halls
• No outdoor space for a ceremony or cocktails

These are the questions a good planner would put to Weylin before you sign. The answers shape the contract more than anything on the price sheet.

1. Is our date open, and what would a Sunday or a weekday cost?
2. Do children, vendor meals and the two of us count towards the 120-guest minimum?
3. Is there a ceremony fee at our guest count?
4. What start time and music cutoff can we agree for our date, and what does an extra hour cost?
5. What does the 1875 Bar after-party cost, how many does it hold and how late can it run?
6. Can we see a floor plan at our guest count showing the ceremony, dinner tables, dance floor and band?
7. What does a typical Brooktech quote look like for a wedding our size with a band?
8. What exactly does the $95 to $105 rental estimate cover, and what are delivery and breakage?
9. When is the tasting, how many of us can come and is there a charge?
10. Which brands are on the bar, what do upgrades cost and can the bar run into the after-party?
11. What are the rules on candles, hanging installations and confetti?
12. Where do cars and shuttles drop off, and what does valet cost?
13. What is the step-free route between the entrance, the domes, the lower floor and the restrooms?
14. How are the domes heated in January and cooled in July?
15. What are the payment schedule, the damage deposit, the card fee and the cancellation and postponement terms?
16. What would a rehearsal dinner in the Bar and Gallery cost?

Gotham Hall. The Manhattan answer: another former bank, with a stained-glass dome over a single oval ballroom in Midtown. Choose it if your guests are staying in Manhattan or you want everyone in one room at 250. It costs more, from $98,500 for the first 125 guests.

Wythe Hotel. Choose it if you want the rooms upstairs. Its Main Hall seats up to 150 for dinner, the furniture is included and guests take the elevator to bed. You trade the domes for a warmer, smaller, more relaxed wedding.

Liberty Warehouse. Choose it for the water. A Red Hook pier building with the harbor and the Statue of Liberty outside the windows and room for 350 seated. It feels like Brooklyn’s waterfront, where Weylin feels like its Gilded Age.

1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge. Choose it for the skyline and a hotel around the wedding. Contemporary where Weylin is historic, with the park and the bridge outside. You share the building with other guests.

The RoamRecs New York City wedding venue guide maps landmark halls, hotels and Brooklyn event spaces, with pricing, capacity and overnight rooms for each. Save Weylin, add two or three alternatives and compare them side by side.

The question to carry through your shortlist: how much do the painted dome, the walk downstairs to the bar and a wedding with no weather plan matter to you? If they are the night you have been picturing, the layered bill and the hotel block are a fair price for them.